Format:
1 online resource (549 pages)
Edition:
6th ed.
ISBN:
9780080460086
Content:
Understanding ship stability is critical for all maritime students or professionals who are studying for a deck or engineering certificate of competency, or seeking promotion to a higher rank within any branch of the merchant marine or Navy. The sixth edition of the now classic 'Ship Stability' provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of ship stability and ship strength, squat, interaction and trim, materials stresses and forces. * The market leading ship stability text, widely used at sea and on shore * New content inclues coverage of now-mandatory double-skin tankers and fast ferries * Meets STCW (Standards of Training, Certification & Watchkeeping) requirements and includes self-examination material: essential reading for professionals and students alike.
Content:
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Note -- Introduction -- Changes to the Sixth edition -- Part 1 Linking Ship Stability and Ship Motions -- 1 Forces and moments -- Forces -- Moments of forces -- Mass -- Moments of mass -- 2 Centroids and the centre of gravity -- Effect of removing or discharging mass -- Application to ships -- Effect of adding or loading mass -- Application to ships -- Effect of shifting weights -- Effect of suspended weights -- Conclusions -- 3 Density and specific gravity -- 4 Laws of flotation -- The variable immersion hydrometer -- Tonnes per centimetre immersion (TPC) -- TPC in dock water -- Reserve buoyancy -- Homogeneous logs of rectangular section -- Conclusion -- 5 Group weights, water draft, air draft and density -- Group weights in a ship -- Effect of change of density when the displacement is constant -- The effect on box-shaped vessels -- The effect on ship-shaped vessels -- Effect of density on displacement when the draft is constant -- 6 Transverse statical stability -- Recapitulation -- Definitions -- The metacentre -- Equilibrium -- Stable equilibrium -- Unstable equilibrium -- Neutral equilibrium -- Correcting unstable and neutral equilibrium -- Stiff and tender ships -- Negative GM and angle of loll -- The GM value -- 7 Effect of free surface of liquids on stability -- Correcting an angle of loll -- 8 TPC and displacement curves -- Recapitulation -- TPC curves -- Displacement curves -- 9 Form coefficients -- The coefficient of fineness of the water-plane area (Cw) -- The block coefficient of fineness of displacement (Cb) -- Ship's lifeboats -- The midships coefficient (Cm) -- The prismatic coefficient (Cp) -- Note -- 10 Simpson's Rules for areas and centroids -- Areas and volumes -- Simpson's First Rule -- Summary -- Simpson's Second Rule.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780750667845
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Derrett, D. R. Ship stability for masters and mates Amsterdam : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006 ISBN 0750667842
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Schiff
;
Stabilität